User: jpmcc   
Date: 2010-03-04 06:00:50+0000
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href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/>
        <link href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/"/>
        <id>http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id>
-       <updated>2010-03-04T00:00:34+00:00</updated>
+       <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:46+00:00</updated>
        <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 
+http://www.planetplanet.org</generator>
 
        <entry>
+               <title type="html">Document Freedom Day 2010 - Free your 
documents, save your information!</title>
+               <link 
href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/document-freedom-day-2010-free-your.html"/>
+               
<id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4001571820383438801</id>
+               <updated>2010-03-03T22:06:27+00:00</updated>
+               <content type="html">&lt;div&gt;A link worth attention. 
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100302-01.en.html&quot;&gt;Document 
Freedom Day 2010 - Free your documents, save your information!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div 
class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; 
height=&quot;1&quot; 
src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-4001571820383438801?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com&quot;
 alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>
+               <author>
+                       <name>oulipo</name>
+                       <email>[email protected]</email>
+                       <uri>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/</uri>
+               </author>
+               <source>
+                       <title type="html">ooo-speak</title>
+                       <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, 
and everything else.</subtitle>
+                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
+                       <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id>
+                       <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:41+00:00</updated>
+               </source>
+       </entry>
+
+       <entry>
                <title type="html">ODF's doomed mission to break into Microsoft 
Office • The Register</title>
                <link 
href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/02/odfs-doomed-mission-to-break-into.html"/>
                
<id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-5723664805341259996</id>
@@ -24,7 +44,7 @@
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and everything else.</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id>
-                       <updated>2010-02-25T18:00:38+00:00</updated>
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@@ -110,7 +130,7 @@
                        <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, 
and everything else.</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id>
-                       <updated>2010-02-25T18:00:38+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:41+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
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                        <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, 
and everything else.</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id>
-                       <updated>2010-02-25T18:00:38+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:41+00:00</updated>
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@@ -150,7 +170,7 @@
                        <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, 
and everything else.</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id>
-                       <updated>2010-02-25T18:00:38+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:41+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 
@@ -207,113 +227,7 @@
                        <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, 
and everything else.</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id>
-                       <updated>2010-02-25T18:00:38+00:00</updated>
-               </source>
-       </entry>
-
-       <entry xml:lang="fr">
-               <title type="html">Le futur de OOo</title>
-               <link 
href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/29/144-le-futur-de-ooo"/>
-               <id>tag:sophiegautier.com,2010-01-29:/blog/144</id>
-               <updated>2010-01-29T17:22:15+00:00</updated>
-               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Quelques informations sur ce qui 
se passe en ce moment dans le projet suite au rachat de Sun par Oracle. &lt;br 
/&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-Si la conférence d'Oracle a duré plusieurs heures, je dois dire qu'elle m'a 
assez laissée sur ma faim. Pas uniquement parce que OOo n'a fait l'objet que 
d'une slide mais par le manque de communication sur la stratégie open source 
en général. J'ai l'impression d'avoir ententu parlé produit et client toute 
la soirée... Bref, une discours de marché corp habituel. Attendons donc les 
discussions de couloirs qui seront sans doute plus instructives ;)
-&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-Pour ce qui est de OOo, voici ce qu'en a dit Edward Screven, Chief Corporate 
Architect, Oracle Operating Systems and Virtualization Strategy :&lt;br 
/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Managed as an independent Global Business Unit
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Retaining Sun development and support teams&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Continue to develop, promote and support OpenOffice
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Including the OpenOffice.or community edition&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Deliver Oracle Cloud Office
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Web based productivity suite - integrates desktop, web, and mobile 
user interaction&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Focus on enterprise customers
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;e.g. integrations with BI and Content Management&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Enhance the customer support experience
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Leverage the Oracle Customer Services Infrastructure&lt;br 
/&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
-On peut donc continuer à agir en confiance sur la ligne suivie par Sun, 
Oracle ne change pas de stratégie à ce niveau. C'est bien et je suis très 
contente de pouvoir continuer à travailler avec Hamburg. Je pense, en pouvant 
me tromper, que la suite Oracle Cloud Office sera un produit propriétaire. 
Oracle n'aura pas de mal à améliorer la relation client, Sun n'ayant pas 
été très doué à ce niveau, du moins en France et en Italie.&lt;br 
/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-&lt;p&gt;Dans le futur très proche, nous changeons d'infrastructure 
d'hébergement et nous quittons (enfin !) CollabNet et CEE (c'est à dire les 
sites, les mailings listes et IssueTracker).. Nous sommes en phase 
d'évaluation du projet Kenai (et BugZilla) et pas vraiment proche de la 
migration visiblement. Il reste encore beaucoup beaucoup de travail ne 
serait-ce que d'inventaire et de mappage des fonctionnalités.&lt;br 
/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-&lt;p&gt;Le site Extensions migre (enfin après plus de deux ans !) sur une 
nouvelle version de Drupal, principalement pour avoir accès à la localization 
sans être connecté.
-La localization n'est pas en reste puisque la nouvelle version de Pootle est 
en cours de mise en place et SunGloss est maintenant figé et nous devrions 
maintenir nos glossaires sur OpenCTI. Mais, bon pour OpenCTI, je suis pas 
sûre, le peu que j'en ai testé ne semblait pas du tout répondre à ce que 
j'attendais. Enfin, à tester encore un peu plus et à discuter avec 
Elsa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-
-&lt;pre&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</content>
-               <author>
-                       <name>sophi</name>
-                       <uri>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/</uri>
-               </author>
-               <source>
-                       <title type="html">Sgauti at OOo</title>
-                       <subtitle type="html">Histoires OpenOfficiennes et 
autres...</subtitle>
-                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/atom.php"/>
-                       <id>tag:sophiegautier.com,2010:/blog/index.php/</id>
-                       <updated>2010-02-20T00:00:33+00:00</updated>
-               </source>
-       </entry>
-
-       <entry>
-               <title type="html">Victory</title>
-               <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2010/01/victory.html"/>
-               
<id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-1713832739170283194</id>
-               <updated>2010-01-29T12:36:30+00:00</updated>
-               <content type="html">The Danish Parliament has decided to 
create a list of allowed standards. The standards MUST be implemented before 
end 2011.The decision includes two important things:ODF is on the list - OOXML 
is NOT!New standards MUST live up to certain criterias, among others it must be 
fully inter-operable with existing formats (formats already on the list). 
Microsoft is therefor responsible for</content>
-               <author>
-                       <name>Leif Lodahl</name>
-                       <email>[email protected]</email>
-                       <uri>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/</uri>
-               </author>
-               <source>
-                       <title type="html">Lodahl's blog</title>
-                       <subtitle type="html">OpenOffice.org, open source 
software and open standards. These are the three things you can read about on 
my blog. I'll try to keep you updated on news and events in Denmark.
-Okay, sometimes you can read about Lotus Notes too</subtitle>
-                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
-                       <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id>
-                       <updated>2010-03-03T12:00:40+00:00</updated>
-               </source>
-       </entry>
-
-       <entry xml:lang="en">
-               <title type="html">Sun gets a new sales department, Apple 
releases a nice picture frame with DRM</title>
-               <link 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/"/>
-               
<id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/</id>
-               <updated>2010-01-28T18:05:14+00:00</updated>
-               <content type="html">&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;So it happened. Oracle has swallowed Sun Microsystems. Monty should 
have gotten the news by now. Perhaps he could even be interested by the 
announcements of Oracle? They&amp;#8217;re hiring good sales reps. More 
seriously, the &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.oracle.com/events/productstrategy/index.html#hardware&quot;&gt;announcements
 done through webcasts and available on the Oracle website&lt;/a&gt; are very 
impressive, product-wise and strategy-wise. Better server offerings, more 
powerful hardware, Java continued, OpenDocument Format praised. If Oracle 
executes what they just announced, we might actually end up having FUN, with 
capital letters. On the &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://oracle.com.edgesuite.net/ivt/4000/8104/9236/12637/lobby_external_flash_clean_480x360/default.htm&quot;&gt;specific
 chapter of OpenOffice.org&lt;/a&gt;, an ODF-based, online version of 
OpenOffice.org has been announced and my small finger tells me that 
it&amp;#8217;s going to be a very good surprize. What remains to be seen, of 
course, is whether Oracle will find this strategy to be profitable enough. They 
have discussed investments so far, but one should also expect the cost cutting 
part of the equation. Another thing that worries me is the lack of  clear 
emphasis on Free &amp;amp; Open Source. I hear &amp;#8220;Open 
Systems&amp;#8221;, &amp;#8220;Open Standards&amp;#8221; and &amp;#8220;Open 
everything&amp;#8221;. But the tough part will also be in the governance of 
existing Free and Open Source projects.  This being said, I have to stress how 
pleased I have been by what I heard and watched so far. So pleased, in fact, 
that it seems to me that Oracle has ended up merging with Sun, more than merely 
acquiring it. The result might very well end up being Sun on steroids, or Sun 
with a new sales department and a serious database offering that Monty hates. 
Good luck and congratulations!&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;What I have not enjoyed was the presentation of Apple&amp;#8217;s 
iPad. To be sure, it&amp;#8217;s a nice device, and I understand that 
it&amp;#8217;s not being advertised as some sort of netbook or affordable 
MacBook. It&amp;#8217;s actually a very nice device, looking like a beautiful 
picture frame. The inherent weakness is that it strikes me as a more powerful 
iPhone. The smart part of that story is that Apple is essentially offering easy 
and elegant Internet browsing to anyone by minimizing its own costs and risk 
taking. The bad part is that the iPad is riddled with DRM, and that you are 
essentially locked up in Apple&amp;#8217;s infamous App Store. In short, 
it&amp;#8217;s a device letting you browse the Internet as long as Apple wants 
it, depriving you of your most basic digital freedoms. I do not think that it 
will pay and that in the end, sole consumer&amp;#8217;s satisfaction induced by 
very powerful marketing and excellent user experience will be enough. Other 
competitors will eventually be &amp;#8220;as good&amp;#8221; as Apple, with 
less restrictions and less of that Diva-like behaviour, which is another way to 
write the words &amp;#8220;anti-competitive&amp;#8221; and 
&amp;#8220;proprietary&amp;#8221;.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;We are in the end of January 2010: Sun just disappeared, Apple 
re-releases its Newton. Happy future, everyone.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p class=&quot;akst_link&quot;&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=156&amp;akst_action=share-this&quot;
 title=&quot;E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.&quot; 
id=&quot;akst_link_156&quot; class=&quot;akst_share_link&quot; 
rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Share This&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;/p&gt;</content>
-               <author>
-                       <name>Charles Schulz</name>
-                       <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri>
-               </author>
-               <source>
-                       <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by 
Standards » OOo Postings</title>
-                       <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. 
Schulz.</subtitle>
-                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/>
-                       
<id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id>
-                       <updated>2010-03-03T12:00:37+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2010-03-04T06:00:41+00:00</updated>
                </source>
        </entry>
 

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+++ index.html  2010-03-04 06:00:47+0000        1.2809
@@ -29,8 +29,23 @@
 <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a>
 </div>
 
-<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: March 04, 2010 12:00 AM 
CET</em></p>
+<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: March 04, 2010 06:00 AM 
CET</em></p>
 
+<h2>March 03, 2010</h2>
+<h3>
+<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak">
+Louis Suarez-Potts</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
+<a 
href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/document-freedom-day-2010-free-your.html";>
+Document Freedom Day 2010 - Free your documents, save your information!</a>
+</h3>
+<p>
+<div>A link worth attention. </div><div><br /></div><a 
href="http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100302-01.en.html";>Document Freedom Day 
2010 - Free your documents, save your information!</a><div 
class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" 
src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-4001571820383438801?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com";
 alt="" /></div></p>
+<p>
+<em><a 
href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/document-freedom-day-2010-free-your.html";>by
 oulipo ([email protected]) at March 03, 2010 10:06 PM CET</a></em>
+</p>
+<br />
+<hr />
+<br />
 <h2>February 23, 2010</h2>
 <h3>
 <a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak">
@@ -189,97 +204,6 @@
 <br />
 <hr />
 <br />
-<h2>January 29, 2010</h2>
-<h3>
-<a href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/"; title="Sgauti at OOo">
-Sophie Gautier</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
-<a 
href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/29/144-le-futur-de-ooo";>
-Le futur de OOo</a>
-</h3>
-<p>
-<p>Quelques informations sur ce qui se passe en ce moment dans le projet suite 
au rachat de Sun par Oracle. <br />
-<br />
-Si la conférence d'Oracle a duré plusieurs heures, je dois dire qu'elle m'a 
assez laissée sur ma faim. Pas uniquement parce que OOo n'a fait l'objet que 
d'une slide mais par le manque de communication sur la stratégie open source 
en général. J'ai l'impression d'avoir ententu parlé produit et client toute 
la soirée... Bref, une discours de marché corp habituel. Attendons donc les 
discussions de couloirs qui seront sans doute plus instructives ;)
-<br />
-<br />
-Pour ce qui est de OOo, voici ce qu'en a dit Edward Screven, Chief Corporate 
Architect, Oracle Operating Systems and Virtualization Strategy :<br /></p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Managed as an independent Global Business Unit
-<ul>
-<li>Retaining Sun development and support teams</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>Continue to develop, promote and support OpenOffice
-<ul>
-<li>Including the OpenOffice.or community edition</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>Deliver Oracle Cloud Office
-<ul>
-<li>Web based productivity suite - integrates desktop, web, and mobile user 
interaction</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>Focus on enterprise customers
-<ul>
-<li>e.g. integrations with BI and Content Management</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>Enhance the customer support experience
-<ul>
-<li>Leverage the Oracle Customer Services Infrastructure<br /></li>
-</ul></li>
-</ul>
-<p><br />
-On peut donc continuer à agir en confiance sur la ligne suivie par Sun, 
Oracle ne change pas de stratégie à ce niveau. C'est bien et je suis très 
contente de pouvoir continuer à travailler avec Hamburg. Je pense, en pouvant 
me tromper, que la suite Oracle Cloud Office sera un produit propriétaire. 
Oracle n'aura pas de mal à améliorer la relation client, Sun n'ayant pas 
été très doué à ce niveau, du moins en France et en Italie.<br /><br /></p>
-
-
-<p>Dans le futur très proche, nous changeons d'infrastructure d'hébergement 
et nous quittons (enfin !) CollabNet et CEE (c'est à dire les sites, les 
mailings listes et IssueTracker).. Nous sommes en phase d'évaluation du projet 
Kenai (et BugZilla) et pas vraiment proche de la migration visiblement. Il 
reste encore beaucoup beaucoup de travail ne serait-ce que d'inventaire et de 
mappage des fonctionnalités.<br /></p>
-
-
-<p>Le site Extensions migre (enfin après plus de deux ans !) sur une nouvelle 
version de Drupal, principalement pour avoir accès à la localization sans 
être connecté.
-La localization n'est pas en reste puisque la nouvelle version de Pootle est 
en cours de mise en place et SunGloss est maintenant figé et nous devrions 
maintenir nos glossaires sur OpenCTI. Mais, bon pour OpenCTI, je suis pas 
sûre, le peu que j'en ai testé ne semblait pas du tout répondre à ce que 
j'attendais. Enfin, à tester encore un peu plus et à discuter avec Elsa.<br 
/></p>
-
-
-
-<pre></pre></p>
-<p>
-<em><a 
href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/29/144-le-futur-de-ooo";>by
 sophi at January 29, 2010 05:22 PM CET</a></em>
-</p>
-<br />
-<hr />
-<br />
-<h3>
-<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog">
-Leif Lodahl</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
-<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2010/01/victory.html";>
-Victory</a>
-</h3>
-<p>
-The Danish Parliament has decided to create a list of allowed standards. The 
standards MUST be implemented before end 2011.The decision includes two 
important things:ODF is on the list - OOXML is NOT!New standards MUST live up 
to certain criterias, among others it must be fully inter-operable with 
existing formats (formats already on the list). Microsoft is therefor 
responsible for</p>
-<p>
-<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2010/01/victory.html";>by Leif Lodahl 
([email protected]) at January 29, 2010 12:36 PM CET</a></em>
-</p>
-<br />
-<hr />
-<br />
-<h2>January 28, 2010</h2>
-<h3>
-<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by 
Standards » OOo Postings">
-Charles Schulz</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
-<a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/";>
-Sun gets a new sales department, Apple releases a nice picture frame with 
DRM</a>
-</h3>
-<p>
-<ul>
-<li>So it happened. Oracle has swallowed Sun Microsystems. Monty should have 
gotten the news by now. Perhaps he could even be interested by the 
announcements of Oracle? They&#8217;re hiring good sales reps. More seriously, 
the <a 
href="http://www.oracle.com/events/productstrategy/index.html#hardware";>announcements
 done through webcasts and available on the Oracle website</a> are very 
impressive, product-wise and strategy-wise. Better server offerings, more 
powerful hardware, Java continued, OpenDocument Format praised. If Oracle 
executes what they just announced, we might actually end up having FUN, with 
capital letters. On the <a 
href="http://oracle.com.edgesuite.net/ivt/4000/8104/9236/12637/lobby_external_flash_clean_480x360/default.htm";>specific
 chapter of OpenOffice.org</a>, an ODF-based, online version of OpenOffice.org 
has been announced and my small finger tells me that it&#8217;s going to be a 
very good surprize. What remains to be seen, of course, is whether Oracle will 
find this strategy to be profitable enough. They have discussed investments so 
far, but one should also expect the cost cutting part of the equation. Another 
thing that worries me is the lack of  clear emphasis on Free &amp; Open 
Source. I hear &#8220;Open Systems&#8221;, &#8220;Open Standards&#8221; and 
&#8220;Open everything&#8221;. But the tough part will also be in the 
governance of existing Free and Open Source projects.  This being said, I have 
to stress how pleased I have been by what I heard and watched so far. So 
pleased, in fact, that it seems to me that Oracle has ended up merging with 
Sun, more than merely acquiring it. The result might very well end up being Sun 
on steroids, or Sun with a new sales department and a serious database offering 
that Monty hates. Good luck and congratulations!</li>
-<li>What I have not enjoyed was the presentation of Apple&#8217;s iPad. To be 
sure, it&#8217;s a nice device, and I understand that it&#8217;s not being 
advertised as some sort of netbook or affordable MacBook. It&#8217;s actually a 
very nice device, looking like a beautiful picture frame. The inherent weakness 
is that it strikes me as a more powerful iPhone. The smart part of that story 
is that Apple is essentially offering easy and elegant Internet browsing to 
anyone by minimizing its own costs and risk taking. The bad part is that the 
iPad is riddled with DRM, and that you are essentially locked up in 
Apple&#8217;s infamous App Store. In short, it&#8217;s a device letting you 
browse the Internet as long as Apple wants it, depriving you of your most basic 
digital freedoms. I do not think that it will pay and that in the end, sole 
consumer&#8217;s satisfaction induced by very powerful marketing and excellent 
user experience will be enough. Other competitors will eventually be &#8220;as 
good&#8221; as Apple, with less restrictions and less of that Diva-like 
behaviour, which is another way to write the words 
&#8220;anti-competitive&#8221; and &#8220;proprietary&#8221;.</li>
-</ul>
-<p>We are in the end of January 2010: Sun just disappeared, Apple re-releases 
its Newton. Happy future, everyone.</p>
-<p class="akst_link"><a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=156&akst_action=share-this"; 
title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_156" 
class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a>
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-<em><a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/";>by
 Charles at January 28, 2010 06:05 PM CET</a></em>
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+<item 
rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4001571820383438801">
+       <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Document Freedom Day 2010 - Free your 
documents, save your information!</title>
+       
<link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/document-freedom-day-2010-free-your.html</link>
+       <content:encoded>&lt;div&gt;A link worth attention. 
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100302-01.en.html&quot;&gt;Document 
Freedom Day 2010 - Free your documents, save your information!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div 
class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; 
height=&quot;1&quot; 
src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-4001571820383438801?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com&quot;
 alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
+       <dc:date>2010-03-03T22:06:27+00:00</dc:date>
+       <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator>
+</item>
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rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-5723664805341259996">
        <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: ODF's doomed mission to break into Microsoft 
Office • The Register</title>
        
<link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/02/odfs-doomed-mission-to-break-into.html</link>
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        <dc:date>2010-02-06T06:54:09+00:00</dc:date>
        <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator>
 </item>
-<item rdf:about="tag:sophiegautier.com,2010-01-29:/blog/144">
-       <title>Sophie Gautier: Le futur de OOo</title>
-       
<link>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/29/144-le-futur-de-ooo</link>
-       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Quelques informations sur ce qui se passe en 
ce moment dans le projet suite au rachat de Sun par Oracle. &lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-Si la conférence d'Oracle a duré plusieurs heures, je dois dire qu'elle m'a 
assez laissée sur ma faim. Pas uniquement parce que OOo n'a fait l'objet que 
d'une slide mais par le manque de communication sur la stratégie open source 
en général. J'ai l'impression d'avoir ententu parlé produit et client toute 
la soirée... Bref, une discours de marché corp habituel. Attendons donc les 
discussions de couloirs qui seront sans doute plus instructives ;)
-&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-Pour ce qui est de OOo, voici ce qu'en a dit Edward Screven, Chief Corporate 
Architect, Oracle Operating Systems and Virtualization Strategy :&lt;br 
/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Managed as an independent Global Business Unit
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Retaining Sun development and support teams&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Continue to develop, promote and support OpenOffice
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Including the OpenOffice.or community edition&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Deliver Oracle Cloud Office
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Web based productivity suite - integrates desktop, web, and mobile 
user interaction&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Focus on enterprise customers
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;e.g. integrations with BI and Content Management&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Enhance the customer support experience
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Leverage the Oracle Customer Services Infrastructure&lt;br 
/&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
-On peut donc continuer à agir en confiance sur la ligne suivie par Sun, 
Oracle ne change pas de stratégie à ce niveau. C'est bien et je suis très 
contente de pouvoir continuer à travailler avec Hamburg. Je pense, en pouvant 
me tromper, que la suite Oracle Cloud Office sera un produit propriétaire. 
Oracle n'aura pas de mal à améliorer la relation client, Sun n'ayant pas 
été très doué à ce niveau, du moins en France et en Italie.&lt;br 
/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-&lt;p&gt;Dans le futur très proche, nous changeons d'infrastructure 
d'hébergement et nous quittons (enfin !) CollabNet et CEE (c'est à dire les 
sites, les mailings listes et IssueTracker).. Nous sommes en phase 
d'évaluation du projet Kenai (et BugZilla) et pas vraiment proche de la 
migration visiblement. Il reste encore beaucoup beaucoup de travail ne 
serait-ce que d'inventaire et de mappage des fonctionnalités.&lt;br 
/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-&lt;p&gt;Le site Extensions migre (enfin après plus de deux ans !) sur une 
nouvelle version de Drupal, principalement pour avoir accès à la localization 
sans être connecté.
-La localization n'est pas en reste puisque la nouvelle version de Pootle est 
en cours de mise en place et SunGloss est maintenant figé et nous devrions 
maintenir nos glossaires sur OpenCTI. Mais, bon pour OpenCTI, je suis pas 
sûre, le peu que j'en ai testé ne semblait pas du tout répondre à ce que 
j'attendais. Enfin, à tester encore un peu plus et à discuter avec 
Elsa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-
-&lt;pre&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</content:encoded>
-       <dc:date>2010-01-29T17:22:15+00:00</dc:date>
-       <dc:creator>sophi</dc:creator>
-</item>
-<item 
rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-1713832739170283194">
-       <title>Leif Lodahl: Victory</title>
-       <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2010/01/victory.html</link>
-       <content:encoded>The Danish Parliament has decided to create a list of 
allowed standards. The standards MUST be implemented before end 2011.The 
decision includes two important things:ODF is on the list - OOXML is NOT!New 
standards MUST live up to certain criterias, among others it must be fully 
inter-operable with existing formats (formats already on the list). Microsoft 
is therefor responsible for</content:encoded>
-       <dc:date>2010-01-29T12:36:30+00:00</dc:date>
-       <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator>
-</item>
-<item 
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-       <title>Charles Schulz: Sun gets a new sales department, Apple releases 
a nice picture frame with DRM</title>
-       
<link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/</link>
-       <content:encoded>&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;So it happened. Oracle has swallowed Sun Microsystems. Monty should 
have gotten the news by now. Perhaps he could even be interested by the 
announcements of Oracle? They&amp;#8217;re hiring good sales reps. More 
seriously, the &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.oracle.com/events/productstrategy/index.html#hardware&quot;&gt;announcements
 done through webcasts and available on the Oracle website&lt;/a&gt; are very 
impressive, product-wise and strategy-wise. Better server offerings, more 
powerful hardware, Java continued, OpenDocument Format praised. If Oracle 
executes what they just announced, we might actually end up having FUN, with 
capital letters. On the &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://oracle.com.edgesuite.net/ivt/4000/8104/9236/12637/lobby_external_flash_clean_480x360/default.htm&quot;&gt;specific
 chapter of OpenOffice.org&lt;/a&gt;, an ODF-based, online version of 
OpenOffice.org has been announced and my small finger tells me that 
it&amp;#8217;s going to be a very good surprize. What remains to be seen, of 
course, is whether Oracle will find this strategy to be profitable enough. They 
have discussed investments so far, but one should also expect the cost cutting 
part of the equation. Another thing that worries me is the lack of  clear 
emphasis on Free &amp;amp; Open Source. I hear &amp;#8220;Open 
Systems&amp;#8221;, &amp;#8220;Open Standards&amp;#8221; and &amp;#8220;Open 
everything&amp;#8221;. But the tough part will also be in the governance of 
existing Free and Open Source projects.  This being said, I have to stress how 
pleased I have been by what I heard and watched so far. So pleased, in fact, 
that it seems to me that Oracle has ended up merging with Sun, more than merely 
acquiring it. The result might very well end up being Sun on steroids, or Sun 
with a new sales department and a serious database offering that Monty hates. 
Good luck and congratulations!&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;What I have not enjoyed was the presentation of Apple&amp;#8217;s 
iPad. To be sure, it&amp;#8217;s a nice device, and I understand that 
it&amp;#8217;s not being advertised as some sort of netbook or affordable 
MacBook. It&amp;#8217;s actually a very nice device, looking like a beautiful 
picture frame. The inherent weakness is that it strikes me as a more powerful 
iPhone. The smart part of that story is that Apple is essentially offering easy 
and elegant Internet browsing to anyone by minimizing its own costs and risk 
taking. The bad part is that the iPad is riddled with DRM, and that you are 
essentially locked up in Apple&amp;#8217;s infamous App Store. In short, 
it&amp;#8217;s a device letting you browse the Internet as long as Apple wants 
it, depriving you of your most basic digital freedoms. I do not think that it 
will pay and that in the end, sole consumer&amp;#8217;s satisfaction induced by 
very powerful marketing and excellent user experience will be enough. Other 
competitors will eventually be &amp;#8220;as good&amp;#8221; as Apple, with 
less restrictions and less of that Diva-like behaviour, which is another way to 
write the words &amp;#8220;anti-competitive&amp;#8221; and 
&amp;#8220;proprietary&amp;#8221;.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;We are in the end of January 2010: Sun just disappeared, Apple 
re-releases its Newton. Happy future, everyone.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p class=&quot;akst_link&quot;&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=156&amp;akst_action=share-this&quot;
 title=&quot;E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.&quot; 
id=&quot;akst_link_156&quot; class=&quot;akst_share_link&quot; 
rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Share This&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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        <description>Native Language Confederation Planet - 
http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/</description>
 
 <item>
+       <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Document Freedom Day 2010 - Free your 
documents, save your information!</title>
+       
<guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4001571820383438801</guid>
+       
<link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/document-freedom-day-2010-free-your.html</link>
+       <description>&lt;div&gt;A link worth attention. 
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100302-01.en.html&quot;&gt;Document 
Freedom Day 2010 - Free your documents, save your information!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div 
class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; 
height=&quot;1&quot; 
src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-4001571820383438801?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com&quot;
 alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
+       <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
+       <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author>
+</item>
+<item>
        <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: ODF's doomed mission to break into Microsoft 
Office • The Register</title>
        
<guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-5723664805341259996</guid>
        
<link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/02/odfs-doomed-mission-to-break-into.html</link>
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        <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author>
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-<item>
-       <title>Sophie Gautier: Le futur de OOo</title>
-       <guid>tag:sophiegautier.com,2010-01-29:/blog/144</guid>
-       
<link>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/29/144-le-futur-de-ooo</link>
-       <description>&lt;p&gt;Quelques informations sur ce qui se passe en ce 
moment dans le projet suite au rachat de Sun par Oracle. &lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-Si la conférence d'Oracle a duré plusieurs heures, je dois dire qu'elle m'a 
assez laissée sur ma faim. Pas uniquement parce que OOo n'a fait l'objet que 
d'une slide mais par le manque de communication sur la stratégie open source 
en général. J'ai l'impression d'avoir ententu parlé produit et client toute 
la soirée... Bref, une discours de marché corp habituel. Attendons donc les 
discussions de couloirs qui seront sans doute plus instructives ;)
-&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-Pour ce qui est de OOo, voici ce qu'en a dit Edward Screven, Chief Corporate 
Architect, Oracle Operating Systems and Virtualization Strategy :&lt;br 
/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Managed as an independent Global Business Unit
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Retaining Sun development and support teams&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Continue to develop, promote and support OpenOffice
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Including the OpenOffice.or community edition&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Deliver Oracle Cloud Office
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Web based productivity suite - integrates desktop, web, and mobile 
user interaction&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Focus on enterprise customers
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;e.g. integrations with BI and Content Management&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Enhance the customer support experience
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Leverage the Oracle Customer Services Infrastructure&lt;br 
/&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
-On peut donc continuer à agir en confiance sur la ligne suivie par Sun, 
Oracle ne change pas de stratégie à ce niveau. C'est bien et je suis très 
contente de pouvoir continuer à travailler avec Hamburg. Je pense, en pouvant 
me tromper, que la suite Oracle Cloud Office sera un produit propriétaire. 
Oracle n'aura pas de mal à améliorer la relation client, Sun n'ayant pas 
été très doué à ce niveau, du moins en France et en Italie.&lt;br 
/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-&lt;p&gt;Dans le futur très proche, nous changeons d'infrastructure 
d'hébergement et nous quittons (enfin !) CollabNet et CEE (c'est à dire les 
sites, les mailings listes et IssueTracker).. Nous sommes en phase 
d'évaluation du projet Kenai (et BugZilla) et pas vraiment proche de la 
migration visiblement. Il reste encore beaucoup beaucoup de travail ne 
serait-ce que d'inventaire et de mappage des fonctionnalités.&lt;br 
/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-&lt;p&gt;Le site Extensions migre (enfin après plus de deux ans !) sur une 
nouvelle version de Drupal, principalement pour avoir accès à la localization 
sans être connecté.
-La localization n'est pas en reste puisque la nouvelle version de Pootle est 
en cours de mise en place et SunGloss est maintenant figé et nous devrions 
maintenir nos glossaires sur OpenCTI. Mais, bon pour OpenCTI, je suis pas 
sûre, le peu que j'en ai testé ne semblait pas du tout répondre à ce que 
j'attendais. Enfin, à tester encore un peu plus et à discuter avec 
Elsa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-
-&lt;pre&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description>
-       <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
-</item>
-<item>
-       <title>Leif Lodahl: Victory</title>
-       
<guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-1713832739170283194</guid>
-       <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2010/01/victory.html</link>
-       <description>The Danish Parliament has decided to create a list of 
allowed standards. The standards MUST be implemented before end 2011.The 
decision includes two important things:ODF is on the list - OOXML is NOT!New 
standards MUST live up to certain criterias, among others it must be fully 
inter-operable with existing formats (formats already on the list). Microsoft 
is therefor responsible for</description>
-       <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
-       <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author>
-</item>
-<item>
-       <title>Charles Schulz: Sun gets a new sales department, Apple releases 
a nice picture frame with DRM</title>
-       
<guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/</guid>
-       
<link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/28/sun-gets-a-new-sales-department-apple-releases-a-nice-picture-frame-with-drm/</link>
-       <description>&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;So it happened. Oracle has swallowed Sun Microsystems. Monty should 
have gotten the news by now. Perhaps he could even be interested by the 
announcements of Oracle? They&amp;#8217;re hiring good sales reps. More 
seriously, the &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.oracle.com/events/productstrategy/index.html#hardware&quot;&gt;announcements
 done through webcasts and available on the Oracle website&lt;/a&gt; are very 
impressive, product-wise and strategy-wise. Better server offerings, more 
powerful hardware, Java continued, OpenDocument Format praised. If Oracle 
executes what they just announced, we might actually end up having FUN, with 
capital letters. On the &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://oracle.com.edgesuite.net/ivt/4000/8104/9236/12637/lobby_external_flash_clean_480x360/default.htm&quot;&gt;specific
 chapter of OpenOffice.org&lt;/a&gt;, an ODF-based, online version of 
OpenOffice.org has been announced and my small finger tells me that 
it&amp;#8217;s going to be a very good surprize. What remains to be seen, of 
course, is whether Oracle will find this strategy to be profitable enough. They 
have discussed investments so far, but one should also expect the cost cutting 
part of the equation. Another thing that worries me is the lack of  clear 
emphasis on Free &amp;amp; Open Source. I hear &amp;#8220;Open 
Systems&amp;#8221;, &amp;#8220;Open Standards&amp;#8221; and &amp;#8220;Open 
everything&amp;#8221;. But the tough part will also be in the governance of 
existing Free and Open Source projects.  This being said, I have to stress how 
pleased I have been by what I heard and watched so far. So pleased, in fact, 
that it seems to me that Oracle has ended up merging with Sun, more than merely 
acquiring it. The result might very well end up being Sun on steroids, or Sun 
with a new sales department and a serious database offering that Monty hates. 
Good luck and congratulations!&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;What I have not enjoyed was the presentation of Apple&amp;#8217;s 
iPad. To be sure, it&amp;#8217;s a nice device, and I understand that 
it&amp;#8217;s not being advertised as some sort of netbook or affordable 
MacBook. It&amp;#8217;s actually a very nice device, looking like a beautiful 
picture frame. The inherent weakness is that it strikes me as a more powerful 
iPhone. The smart part of that story is that Apple is essentially offering easy 
and elegant Internet browsing to anyone by minimizing its own costs and risk 
taking. The bad part is that the iPad is riddled with DRM, and that you are 
essentially locked up in Apple&amp;#8217;s infamous App Store. In short, 
it&amp;#8217;s a device letting you browse the Internet as long as Apple wants 
it, depriving you of your most basic digital freedoms. I do not think that it 
will pay and that in the end, sole consumer&amp;#8217;s satisfaction induced by 
very powerful marketing and excellent user experience will be enough. Other 
competitors will eventually be &amp;#8220;as good&amp;#8221; as Apple, with 
less restrictions and less of that Diva-like behaviour, which is another way to 
write the words &amp;#8220;anti-competitive&amp;#8221; and 
&amp;#8220;proprietary&amp;#8221;.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;We are in the end of January 2010: Sun just disappeared, Apple 
re-releases its Newton. Happy future, everyone.&lt;/p&gt;
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